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[โ€“] Obi@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But Reddit doesn't need these thousands of employees, they're already getting the brunt of the workforce for free (the mods). Like the other guy said, one hundred engineers to manage the platform, 100 customer service to help the mods/do admin and off you go, you just need a few unobtrusive ads to finance that. But that's way too open and won't turn you into a billion dollar business nor get you any love from advertisers or VCs, let alone going IPO, so we are where we are.

[โ€“] nsavage@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agreed. What are all their employees doing? Is reddit basically an adult daycare?

[โ€“] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

they are doing things like launching Avatars, NFT's, and other ways to try and cash in for a quick buck.

[โ€“] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

As someone who's 4 weeks into new job with very unclear duties, there's definitely a point where a company loses a lot of efficiency because there's too many people who don't seem to do much for the company, even those who want to do more for the company.

On the upside its a very low stress job with very good pay and benefits, plus I'm getting to do things like leading trainings that I might not otherwise get to do at this stage of my career